Baca

The Valley of Baca, also called the Valley of Tears, translated
in the New Version “the Valley of Weeping,” apparently a dry sterile
valley, the type of this earth spoilt by sorrow and sin. “Blessed is
the man ... in whose heart are the ways of them. Who passing through the
valley of Baca make it a well ...” (Psalm lxxxiv. 6). That man is blessed whose trust in God converts adverse
circumstances into proofs of divine love. “Whom He loveth He
chasteneth.” They “go from strength to strength.”

In the mountains of Lebanon is a valley called Baca, but it is
described as fertile and very delicious. The Valley of Lebanon (Joshua
xi. 17) is encompassed by mountains, one of which is very barren, and
abounds in thorns, rocks, and flints, but another is called a
terrestrial paradise. Baca means “mulberry trees,” but Bekah means a
“plain.” Perowne says Bacah is from a Hebrew root which means
“weeping.”

“Our sources of common pleasure dry up as we journey on through the
vale of Bacha.” —SirWalterScott: The Antiquary.